Game
Definition of Game
Pronunciation: gām a. | 1. | Crooked; lame; as, a game leg. | n. | 1. | Sport of any kind; jest, frolic. | | 2. | A contest, physical or mental, according to certain rules, for amusement, recreation, or for winning a stake; as, a game of chance; games of skill; field games, etc. | | 3. | The use or practice of such a game; a single match at play; a single contest; as, a game at cards. | | 4. | That which is gained, as the stake in a game; also, the number of points necessary to be scored in order to win a game; as, in short whist five points are game. | | 5. | (Card Playing) In some games, a point credited on the score to the player whose cards counts up the highest. | | 6. | A scheme or art employed in the pursuit of an object or purpose; method of procedure; projected line of operations; plan; project. | | 7. | Animals pursued and taken by sportsmen; wild meats designed for, or served at, table.To make game of | to make sport of; to mock. - Milton. |
| a. | 1. | Having a resolute, unyielding spirit, like the gamecock; ready to fight to the last; plucky.I was game . . . .I felt that I could have fought even to the death. - W. Irving. | | 2. | Of or pertaining to such animals as are hunted for game, or to the act or practice of hunting.Game bird | any bird commonly shot for food, esp. grouse, partridges, quails, pheasants, wild turkeys, and the shore or wading birds, such as plovers, snipe, woodcock, curlew, and sandpipers. The term is sometimes arbitrarily restricted to birds hunted by sportsmen, with dogs and guns. |
| v. i. | 1. | To rejoice; to be pleased; - often used, in Old English, impersonally with dative. | | 2. | To play at any sport or diversion. | | 3. | To play for a stake or prize; to use cards, dice, billiards, or other instruments, according to certain rules, with a view to win money or some other thing waged upon the issue of the contest; to gamble. |
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